Ireland

               Tim and I have been home from our wedding/honeymoon for about a month.  We decided that we didn’t want the big wedding, so we would go to Ireland and take our parents.  I have a large immediate and extended family, so if we got married in town, it would have been impossible to have a small, formal, wedding.  I decided I wanted to get married in a castle, and Tim liked that idea, so away we went.  To officially get married in Ireland, we needed to land in Ireland, meet the Registrar, then meet her again in 5 days.  We flew into Shannon and stayed the night in Limerick. We rented a cottage for a week in Loughery, equal distant to meeting the registrar and Ashford Castle, where we had chosen to have the wedding.  

The cottage was lovely.  

 This is the back yard.

Across was a big field, all around were fields actually, it was a working farm.  In the morning, we would wake up to cows mooing, very cool.  

We toured around, I wanted to see as many castles as possible.  We took a bus tour to the Cliffs of Moher, it was really beautiful.  The roads and driving style are different from here in Ontario, I was very glad someone else was driving.  The roads are very narrow, no shoulders, and the speed limit is very fast.  

Then, it was time to travel to Ashford Castle.  We had decided that the women would stay in the castle the night before the wedding and the men would go back to the cottage.  After the guys saw how gorgeous everything was at the castle, they were sad about leaving us.  

The day before the wedding was beautiful, sunny and warm.  The next day, we got rain all day. The pictures turned out great though, thanks to Melissa Mannion.  

We ended the day with a private dinner, it was a great day, despite the weather.  We were really happy with our choice of wedding locations.